Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 24
do, and they could have white breadand honey for supper, and trips in thegondolas out to the island of Muranoon warm summer nights. But no such miracle occurred. Nic-colo, no longer able to afford the expen-sive materials for his work, sat all daywith idle hands, and Laura now devoted hertime… … was Laura any too well paid, so that the familywere reduced to uttermost economy. Oneevening, however, as Niccolo slumbered in hischair, Lanciotto drew his sister into one of thedeep em-brasuresof a highwindow,where hecould re-count hisdays do-ings with-out dis-quietingthe tiredold man.Laura…
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